Chapter 123
Kane’s POV
Just when I thought I was going to get some rest, Evelyn proceeded to pull that move.
A chaste kiss on the cheek-something so innocently simple. Yet, it caused an avalanche of thoughts and questions to flood through my mind.
I knew she was thankful for my showing up to take her back to the house. She had said as much before.
However…I’d become utterly stumped when it came to that damn kiss.
It was like a hand had been extended for me to take. A new line had been drawn, or perhaps even crossed.
It wasn’t long-lasting, nor did it possess any real passion. But the heat it left behind was like nothing I’d ever felt. The sensation settled low in my chest as I was forced to silently lie there and bear it alone.
Meanwhile, Evelyn was already fast asleep beside me. Completely oblivious to the fact that she’d single-handedly turned my life off its damn axis.
Why? Why was it bothering me?
My wolf growled with deep contentment, a far cry from the frustration and anger we felt earlier due to the attack.
‘Because that kiss, as brief and minuscule as it was….was real,’
My eyes widened before a hard line formed between my eyebrows. A scowl took hold of my face.
Real? What the hell did that mean? Weren’t the other times Evelyn and I had shared a kiss real enough?
Not when the only purpose behind them was to prove a point,’ my wolf pointed out. “Think about it, would you have kissed Evelyn, knowing that there was no one around to witness it?’
I fought back a scoff, not wanting to wake Evelyn due to my inner crisis.
“That’s…”
“That’s why it feels so different this time. You know it.’
“But why?”
‘Is it so surprising that she may be developing real feelings toward us?”
Truthfully, yes. And I would be foolish to assume that she undoubtedly was forming real feelings toward me, given our circumstances. That contract that lies between us was a formative wall, meant to keep the two of us separated.
Tied together, yet living two separate lives.
Not to mention that this new plan we started to implement was purely to secure our cover and hide the initial fact that our relationship was an agreed-upon arrangement!
‘So what?’ my wolf prompted. ‘Would it be so horrible to actually fall for the woman that you were arranged to marry this whole time? The same woman that fate has chosen to pair us with?’
“Well, no… Not necessarily… I just…”
‘You are hesitant to allow something real to form on the grounds that it may be seen as a weakness, correct? Or is
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it perhaps something deeper? You’ve never allowed yourself to love so openly and freely before.’
My mind felt shaken. “Since when have you become the voice of reason?” I whispered quietly, not wanting to wake the woman next to me.
‘When it became clear that you were hell bent on not accepting her as anything more than a means to an end. I will not live out the rest of my life separate from our mate because of you.’
It was as good a threat as I’d ever heard. But that warmth still hadn’t escaped my chest. There was no denying the feelings that were transpiring between Evelyn and me were shifting.
And maybe…Maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing.
I turned on my side and loosely draped my arm over Evelyn’s waist. That feeling within my rib cage gently hummed with happy consent, telling me that this was exactly where I needed to be..
I forced my eyes shut and hoped that sleep would quickly come.
The following morning, I was surprisingly apprehensive to find the other side of the bed empty. I unconsciously smiled to myself. The mental image of picturing Evelyn sneaking back to her respective room was enough to make me chuckle.
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